Answer: A for Affect B for Effect

1. The snow days had a chaotic _______ on our school schedule.

2. Getting less than 5 hours of sleep a night will _______ my ability to function.

3. Regular exercise has many positive ______(s) on your health.

4. The harmful ____(s) of smoking are widely known, but many people still smoke.

5. Protests and petitions are a peaceful way to _______ social and political policies.

Writing Prompt

Many people try to live their lives according to The Golden Rule: “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” While this might increase respect and kindness, there are times when it is not the best method; not all people want to be treated the same way.

Write a 5 paragraph essay explaining both the positives and negatives of living according to the Golden Rule. Conclude by deciding whether or not it is a good motto to live by.

You have 30 minutes.

A word of advice…

Partner A – What is the BEST advice you have ever been given? How has it helped you?

Partner B – What is the WORST advice you’ve ever been given? How did it affect you?

Partner C (or both) – How can GOOD advice sometimes turn out badly?

What is an ADAGE?

An ADAGE is a wise saying that is cleverly phrased, and therefore easy to remember and repeat. These are also called proverbs sometimes.

Examples:Treat others the way you want to be treated. If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say

anything at all.Be careful what you wish for.

When Good Advice goes Badly

The Golden Rule: Treat others the way you want to be treated.

What can you infer about someone who makes this their life MOTTO?

Could this advice sometimes turn out to be WRONG?

Now You Try - YOLO

You Only Live OncePartner B – How is this GOOD advice?Partner A – How can it be taken or used

badly?Partner C (all) – What can you INFER

about someone who uses YOLO as a life motto? What kind of choices would they make? How would they treat others?

Journaling

You will be given an ADAGE to analyze.

In your journal, write:

1. What does this adage mean to you?

2. Do you think it is good advice or bad advice? Explain.

Pass the Journal!

Next,you will pass the journal to your partner.

1. Read your partner’s analysis.

2. Write if you agree or disagree with their assessment of the adage and Explain.

3. Write – what would you expect someone who uses this adage as a motto to be like? What kind of person would you expect him/her to be?

Stretch Break!!

Introduction to The Great Gatsby

Nick’s Father’s Advice

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

What can we INFER about this character (or his father) based on this advice?

Analyzing the Advice

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

Discuss with your partner – How might this advice affect Nick’s personality positively?

Analyzing the Advice

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

Discuss with your partner – How might this advice affect Nick’s personality negatively?

Making Predictions – Exit Slip

Listen as the teacher reads the introduction to The Great Gatsby.

Now, on a separate piece of paper, write some predictions you can make about Nick Carroway in the novel The Great Gatsby.

Chapter OneHe didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.